An exam board is set to be fined £350,000 after more than 1,500 pupils received incorrect GCSE grades on results day last ...

However, OCR, one the main boards for England and Wales, said yesterday volume and intensity of exams at GCSE is now 'too high', with the average pupil spending 31.5 hours sitting them.

The first would be a numeracy GCSE – the “driving test” bit, which 100 per cent of students have to do, and need to pass. You would not be able to argue that the content was not relevant.

In summer 2019, the CCEA introduced a new nine-category grade scale - A* to G, including a C*. Students may also get results ...

Last year, more than one in five (22 per cent) UK GCSE entries was awarded a top grade, compared with 26.3 per cent in 2022. But it was higher than in 2019 — the last year that the summer exams were ...

After all, a lot has changed when it comes to school education, exam gradings, and the type of subjects children are learning about. But before you start hiding behind all the excuses, there is a ...

A Welsh exam board is facing a £350,000 fine for giving students incorrect GCSE results. The WJEC gave pupils in England the ...

This year's GCSE exams are well under way, and the first maths paper, one of three, has come and gone. It's an academically terse time for students across the UK - but how would you fare?

Once your GCSE exams are all done and results day approaches, you might be feeling all kind of things: excited, nervous, overwhelmed… Don't worry, this is completely normal and, as always ...